What's new
Fantasy Football - Footballguys Forums

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

timschochet's thread - Ranking hemorrhoids (1 Viewer)

SWC said:
the bucks are in a tailspin since they got rid of brandon knight right now i do not like it i hope that they can turn it around take that to the bank brohans
Click to expand...
He was so vital to their offense. MCW just doesn't have the same offensive skill-set. Odd move, especially in the near-term.

 
Posted this in the HOT TAKES thread too, but I'm putting it here too because it really has it all. The sad kid, the anti-analytics rant, cult, fraud, treating players as numbers. It's almost perfect.

The little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey will never understand why his favorite player is not a Sixer anymore. How are we supposed to explain to a child what “optionality” is?
Last week, in his latest venture into a murky future, GM Sam Hinkie traded the NBA rookie of the year because he wanted more options. In Hinkie’s twisted world, the correct term is “optionality” – the process of turning the known into the unknown, a tangible reality into a vague new promise. Or something like that.

In case you missed my previous remarks in this space about Sam Hinkie, here is a synopsis: He is the biggest fraud I have ever encountered during my 40 years in sports media. He is a charlatan, a snake-oil salesman. He is the Pied Piper of the young and the naïve, people who are not savvy enough to spot the con.Sam Hinkie never saw Carter-Williams as a 23-year-old point guard still learning his craft. Carter-Williams is a real person, with all of his flaws and eccentricities.

Hinkie prefers blank spaces on future draft boards because they never throw the ball out of bounds or miss an open three-point shot. Analytics is theoretical. Real life is not.

To these cultists, nothing can penetrate their admiration for a man who has accomplished nothing, a mysterious figure with a network of enablers who are hypnotized by his elusiveness. Through it all, none of these people – my most recent Internet poll had his number of admirers at 52 percent – has any interest in simple logic.

The real story of the Carter-Williams trade was that it involved a player Hinkie himself had drafted. Didn’t the GM’s extensive analytics research reveal that Carter-Williams was not much of an outside shooter? There was no computer analysis that revealed a tendency to turn the ball over? These flaws were not evident 21 months ago?

When Hinkie traded his own hand-picked point guard at the deadline last week, he revealed two things he would prefer to hide for as long as possible. The first is that his ability to evaluate talent is vastly overrated. And the second is that he has no actual plan to rebuild the team.

How can I be so sure? Well, let’s start with the basic ingredient in every rebuilding plan, the players. Does Hinkie have any specific college stars in mind right now? No, doesn’t know where he will pick in the lottery this year, and even less of a notion of whom, or even what year, all of these future picks will be.

Plus, all rebuilding plans need a timetable. Hinkie used more than 300 words to say nothing when asked for a date when the team will be a contender again.

The follow-up question was: How will we know?

“We’ll all know,” he said.

And so it goes, one insultingly vague answer after another, spouted in a mumbo-jumbo style by a man asking for blind faith in a city of cynics. Of course, in Hinkie’s analytics world, there are no doubters. A carpetbagger who emerges from his cocoon a few times a year, he even has the audacity now to imply an intimacy with the fans.

"Our fans understand that what we are trying to do is build something great, “ he said.

Not really. The father of the little boy with a Michael Carter-Williams jersey called my WIP radio show last Friday. He doesn’t understand at all what Sam Hinkie is trying to do.

“What do I tell my son?” he asked me. “What am I supposed to do now?”

I told him to buy the kid a jersey representing a Philadelphia team not run by Sam Hinkie. After all, the fans have “optionality,” too.
Click to expand...
 
Grizzlies face planting at a the wrong time. Horrible loss last night. TA9 was suspended for a fight with Calathes.

Result: Game tonight in Houston is HUGE with tie-breaker implications... esp considering I've got a pretty good futures wager on Memphis winning the Division and Conference.

:popcorn:

 
Last edited by a moderator:
[icon] said:
Grizzlies face planting at a the wrong time. Horrible loss last night. TA9 was suspended for a fight with Calathes.

Result: Game tonight in Houston is HUGE with tie-breaker implications... esp considering I've got a pretty good futures wager on Memphis winning the Division and Conference.

:popcorn:
Click to expand...
These are the dog days. I don't think many teams are playing their best. If I were the Grizz, I would be happy with the 2nd spot and avoiding OKC.

 
Frostillicus said:
Posted this in the HOT TAKES thread too, but I'm putting it here too because it really has it all. The sad kid, the anti-analytics rant, cult, fraud, treating players as numbers. It's almost perfect.
Click to expand...
Having your kid's favorite player get traded isn't a Sam Hinkie thing. It's a 2015 thing. Wipe his tears on his LeSean McCoy jersey and file it next to Chip Kelly's well-defined plan and timeline for the future.

 
the only duck kelly has not aquired yet is donald what the heck but anyhow i think it is to bad that guys get traded so much now a days on the one hand but i like parity on the other hand so i guess you get a little you lose a little but in the end i like it a lot better now that more teams are in the hunt than just having it be celtics lakers every other year brohans

 
The only GM in Philly who isn't turning over his whole roster is getting killed for it. Optionality yourself onto that bandwagon and see what kind of misery you're in for.

 
No. 16 said:
[icon] said:
Grizzlies face planting at a the wrong time. Horrible loss last night. TA9 was suspended for a fight with Calathes.

Result: Game tonight in Houston is HUGE with tie-breaker implications... esp considering I've got a pretty good futures wager on Memphis winning the Division and Conference.

:popcorn:
Click to expand...
These are the dog days. I don't think many teams are playing their best. If I were the Grizz, I would be happy with the 2nd spot and avoiding OKC.
Click to expand...
Yah, but May's car note says they need to win the division :lol:

Agreed on ducking OKC though.

 
Whiteside with 18 pts, 24 boards and 5 blocks versus the Lakers. He also affected many shots. Best defensive center in the game today? Definitely best in the East. How did he spend over 2 years out of the NBA?

 
SoBeDad said:
Whiteside with 18 pts, 24 boards and 5 blocks versus the Lakers. He also affected many shots. Best defensive center in the game today? Definitely best in the East. How did he spend over 2 years out of the NBA?
Click to expand...
Dude's been absolutely amazing. He's the only reason the Heat have been worth watching IMO.

He keeps playing at this level he's going to break the bank (conveniently for him same offseason as new TV deal will kick in). I'm wondering if he'll wind up setting the record for contract for a guy that's spent years out of the league due to performance.

His current performance undoubtedly warrants in the discussion for best defensive center in the game.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
i am unsure how but the bucks were down 13 and are now tied with the dubs at half i am sure we will lose by a half a hondo but i wi ll not know until tomorrow i ahve to go to bed this is to late goodnight sportsfans and take it to the bankshot bucks and win one for the old swcer

 
Craig_MiamiFL said:
SoBeDad said:
Whiteside with 18 pts, 24 boards and 5 blocks versus the Lakers. He also affected many shots. Best defensive center in the game today? Definitely best in the East. How did he spend over 2 years out of the NBA?
Click to expand...
Dude's been absolutely amazing. He's the only reason the Heat have been worth watching IMO.He keeps playing at this level he's going to break the bank (conveniently for him same offseason as new TV deal will kick in). I'm wondering if he'll wind up setting the record for contract for a guy that's spent years out of the league due to performance.

His current performance undoubtedly warrants in the discussion for best defensive center in the game.
Click to expand...
The Stifle Tower has been very good as well.

 
bucks lost dubs won bucks are trying to get back to five hondo again hey good for them for having goals take that to the bank

 
Capella said:
Short Corner said:
msudaisy26 said:
Craig_MiamiFL said:
Westbrook continues his roll. 4 straight triple doubles.
Click to expand...
If he didn't miss time this year, he would be the run away MVP right now.
Click to expand...
Last 3 games close to 35 FGA's with one win OT win over the lowly Sixers.
Click to expand...
:lmao: his PER is almost THIRTY. It's crazy the lengths people will go to to discredit great play.
Click to expand...
He shot almost 50% last night so you can't argue with that. The previous two games he shot 26/70 so the scoring wasn't quite as impressive as the total points would indicate.

 
Thread title change suggestion.

NBA cracks down on Harden flopping.

He only had 2 FT attempts last night.

And the Rockets announcers were whining for about a full minute when Harden didn't get a foul call late in the game.

Clutch fans is also irate over the no call.

I guess Harden needs to come up with a better hook move to get calls now.

 
Cliff Clavin said:
What a great 4th Q in Toronto. Neither team could miss. Williams dropped 21. LeBron was ridiculous.
Click to expand...
I think Toronto gets bounced out in round 1. They have looked " right " for a while now.

 
Craig_MiamiFL said:
Westbrook continues his roll. 4 straight triple doubles.
Click to expand...
He was my pick before the season for league MVP but injuries derailed that. This kid has major game. I love his game big time. I know some don't like the way he carries himself or what not. But the kid can ball with the best of them.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
SoBeDad said:
Whiteside with 18 pts, 24 boards and 5 blocks versus the Lakers. He also affected many shots. Best defensive center in the game today? Definitely best in the East. How did he spend over 2 years out of the NBA?
Click to expand...
In Riley We Trust.

 
brianj74 said:
Cliff Clavin said:
What a great 4th Q in Toronto. Neither team could miss. Williams dropped 21. LeBron was ridiculous.
Click to expand...
I think Toronto gets bounced out in round 1. They have looked " right " for a while now.
Click to expand...
They have looked terrible in the last half dozen or so but before that they looked great when the beat LAC, SA, WAS and crushed ATL. :shrug:

Only way I see them losing in the 1st round is if Washington fires Wittman and they end up playing them in the 4/5.

 
Village Idiot said:
Thread title change suggestion.

NBA cracks down on Harden flopping.

He only had 2 FT attempts last night.

And the Rockets announcers were whining for about a full minute when Harden didn't get a foul call late in the game.

Clutch fans is also irate over the no call.

I guess Harden needs to come up with a better hook move to get calls now.
Click to expand...
:shrug: It was without question a foul. Should have been called.Edit: Interestingly enough, I was at the game and had the best seats I've ever been in. Was maybe ten to fifteen feet away from the play and got crazy good video of the no call.

 
Last edited by a moderator:
bigbottom said:
Village Idiot said:
Thread title change suggestion.

NBA cracks down on Harden flopping.

He only had 2 FT attempts last night.

And the Rockets announcers were whining for about a full minute when Harden didn't get a foul call late in the game.

Clutch fans is also irate over the no call.

I guess Harden needs to come up with a better hook move to get calls now.
Click to expand...
:shrug: It was without question a foul. Should have been called.Edit: Interestingly enough, I was at the game and had the best seats I've ever been in. Was maybe ten to fifteen feet away from the play and got crazy good video of the no call.
Click to expand...
Dang these were good seats. Yes, I'm sort of whining. Missed call that was decisive in a very important game.

http://youtu.be/txjuf4zhLe4

 
Tyson supposedly back for Dallas tonight. Hope he takes it easy. Going to Mavs-Warriors tomorrow!

No. 16, anywhere good to get dinner near Oracle before the game, or should I not bother?

 
bigbottom said:
bigbottom said:
Village Idiot said:
Thread title change suggestion.

NBA cracks down on Harden flopping.

He only had 2 FT attempts last night.

And the Rockets announcers were whining for about a full minute when Harden didn't get a foul call late in the game.

Clutch fans is also irate over the no call.

I guess Harden needs to come up with a better hook move to get calls now.
Click to expand...
:shrug: It was without question a foul. Should have been called.Edit: Interestingly enough, I was at the game and had the best seats I've ever been in. Was maybe ten to fifteen feet away from the play and got crazy good video of the no call.
Click to expand...
Dang these were good seats. Yes, I'm sort of whining. Missed call that was decisive in a very important game.

http://youtu.be/txjuf4zhLe4
Click to expand...
This is the moral from the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"

 
Instinctive said:
bigbottom said:
bigbottom said:
Village Idiot said:
Thread title change suggestion.

NBA cracks down on Harden flopping.

He only had 2 FT attempts last night.

And the Rockets announcers were whining for about a full minute when Harden didn't get a foul call late in the game.

Clutch fans is also irate over the no call.

I guess Harden needs to come up with a better hook move to get calls now.
Click to expand...
:shrug: It was without question a foul. Should have been called.Edit: Interestingly enough, I was at the game and had the best seats I've ever been in. Was maybe ten to fifteen feet away from the play and got crazy good video of the no call.
Click to expand...
Dang these were good seats. Yes, I'm sort of whining. Missed call that was decisive in a very important game.http://youtu.be/txjuf4zhLe4
Click to expand...
This is the moral from the story "The Boy Who Cried Wolf"
Click to expand...
Fair point. Still a horrible no call.

Another good shot from the game. Apologies for the overuse of slo-mo.

http://youtu.be/IUSDmKz5ETY

 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Similar threads

Andrew74
2025 FBG Stock Contest
2
Replies
77
Views
4K
Andrew74
Andrew74
B Maverick
Router Suggestions
Replies
4
Views
152
gianmarco
gianmarco
T
Coming Soon: Ranking Stephen King’s Published Works
Replies
34
Views
1K
kupcho1
kupcho1

Users who are viewing this thread

Total: 1 (members: 0, guests: 1)
Back
Top